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Shock as indicted officials named to probe Rio chaos

Olympic games, Team Kenya Chief de Mission Stephen Soi speaks during a courtesy call to Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago's office. Though Soi denied claims of deficit of funds to the Rio Olympics, National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOCK) Treasurer Fridah Shiroya revealed that there was a deficit in fund. 13-07-2016. PHOTOS BY: KEVIN TUNOI

Shock greeted the decision by Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario to include indicted sports administrators in a probe team to investigate Team Kenya’s Olympics chaos.

One of the persons appointed to the probe committee yesterday was indicted by a parliamentary committee probing the 2011 All Africa games. The report was, however, hushed up just like the 2012 Olympic report that also censures some of the officials responsible for Team Kenya’s suffering in Rio.

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